³ The church sent them on their way, and as they traveled through Phoenicia^(A) and Samaria, they told how the Gentiles had been converted.^(B) This news made all the believers very glad. ⁴ When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and elders, to whom they reported everything God had done through them.^(C)

⁵ Then some of the believers who belonged to the party^(D) of the Pharisees^(E) stood up and said, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to keep the law of Moses.”^(F)